#housework

When it comes to housework the one thing no book of household management can ever tell you is how to begin. Or maybe I mean why. ↗

— Katharine Whitehorn

#book #comes #ever #household #housework

My girlfriend is much better than I am at working hard then resting, and she demands that from me, too. She insists on having time when we don't do anything. We leave the housework and watch a movie. ↗

— Cynthia Nixon

#anything #better #demands #girlfriend #hard

Housework is work directly opposed to the possibility of human self-actualization. ↗

— Ann Oakley

#housework #human #opposed #possibility #self-actualization

My parents were liberal intellectuals but even they expected me to stay at home and look after my younger siblings and do the housework. ↗

— Sara Paretsky

#even #expected #home #housework #intellectuals

Few tasks are more like the torture of Sisyphus than housework, with its endless repetition: the clean becomes soiled, the soiled is made clean, over and over, day after day. ↗

— Simone de Beauvoir

#repetition #sisyphus #torture

The cruel irony of housework: people only notice when you don't do it. ↗

— Danielle Raine

#housework #irony